Planar unclustered graphs to model technological and biological networks

Many real life networks present an average path length logarithmic with the number of nodes and a degree distribution which follows a power law. Often these networks have also a modular and self-similar structure and, in some cases - usually associated with topological restrictions- their clustering...

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Autores: Miralles de la Asunción, Alicia, Chen, Lichao, Zhang, Zhongzhi, Comellas Padró, Francesc de Paula|||0000-0003-4523-0240
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/2592
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/2592
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Combinatorics
Graphs
Networks
Complex systems
Combinacions (Matemàtica)
Circuits
Anàlisi de xarxes (Planificació)
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics
Classificació AMS::94 Information And Communication, Circuits::94C Circuits, networks
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
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Sumario:Many real life networks present an average path length logarithmic with the number of nodes and a degree distribution which follows a power law. Often these networks have also a modular and self-similar structure and, in some cases - usually associated with topological restrictions- their clustering is low and they are almost planar. In this paper we introduce a family of graphs which share all these properties and are defined by two parameters. As their construction is deterministic, we obtain exact analytic expressions for relevant properties of the graphs including the degree distribution, degree correlation, diameter, and average distance, as a function of the two defining parameters. Thus, the graphs are useful to model some complex networks,in particular technological and biological networks.